Packaging
A packaged edition is an edition that has all of its resources (HTML, CSS, JS, etc) bundled up in a zip file. Packaging can remarkably improve download speed and is required for the edition to appear on the Newsstand.
Since the edition is self-contained, the user can access it both online and offline.
The packaging process is guided by the edition's public and hidden ATOM Feeds, which contain a list of the edition's articles with each of their respective manifests. The hidden ATOM feed contains elements that will not be included in the app's Table of Contents.You can see an edition's feed by going to Editions and clicking on the edition's 'ATOM Feed' link on the right-hand side.
To package an edition, click on the 'package' link:
The Process
When a user clicks on the 'package' link a new page comes up illustrating the steps taking place and showing any errors that might occur.
Here are the main steps:
1. Downloading Public and Hidden ATOM Feeds
The server makes a request to itself to get the ATOM Feed. Then we parse it and extract the list of manifests referenced.
2. Downloading Manifests
We go through the manifests and create a unique set of the files included.
3. Downloading Static Files
We fetch each of the files from the created list. Colouring is based on size, errors or other factors such as slowness.
4. Downloading HTML Pages
We look back to the ATOM feed again and get the list of HTML pages.
5. Packaging files
Creating ZIP for public assets
We get the static files in step 3 and zip them.
Creating ZIP for secure html
We get the HTML pages in set 4 and zip them.
When we unzip these two in the same place the resulting structure is the complete edition content.
Creating Package XML
This XML is basically just for the application to know where to download the necessary parts from and how big they are.
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